I got hired

What role did you land?

System Engineer

Company type

fintech

Your story

I evaluated 634 postings, applied 101 posts, got my top choice offer. Career-ops prepared me for 80%+ of the interview questions that actually showed up.

Career-ops has helped me tremendously in CV generation + tailoring, and interview preparations. The mock interviews helped me avoid many common interview mistakes that I used to make.

I made custom changes to career-ops (that I think it should help others):

• custom css templates for CV and cover letters
  • I asked AI to copied one of the template online, like Canva, save it as HTML
  • Update build-cv-html.mjs (build-cv-html.mjs) — profile path to reference → config/custom-cv-template.html → templates/cv-template.html
• tailor CV for >=4.0 posts: keyword extraction + matching + re-ordering bullet points
  • prioritize metrics, use the same verb to begin each bullet point, order bullet points by weighing importance to JD
  • avoid filler words (for example: available for remote)
  • cv structure rules: page limit, limited word count and line limit for summary and bullet points
• Others QoL / miscellaneous changes below:
  • add every scanned ATS/careers site to portals.yml for tracking
  • add windows scheduled task to run scan mode 2 times a day, archive mode every 3 days
    • C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe
    • argument: /c start /min "" pwsh.exe -WindowStyle Hidden -NonInteractive -File "C:\...\GitHub\career-ops\scheduled-task\career-ops-scan.ps1"
    • career-ops-scan.ps1: wsl -d ubuntu-24.04 --cd /mnt/c/.../GitHub/career-ops -- bash -lc 'echo "========== $(date) ==========" > "./scheduled-task/last-scan.log" && agent "/career-ops scan && pipeline" >> "./scheduled-task/last-scan.log"' exit $LASTEXITCODE

Most useful feature

PDF / CV generation

How many listings did you evaluate?

634

Time from first scan to offer

6 weeks

One tip for others

Customize your CV and keep preparing for interviews!

Where (optional)

Toronto, Canada, Hybrid

How should we show you on the wall?

Role and location only, no handle

Permission

• I'm happy for this story to appear publicly on the Hired Wall (HIRED.md), the README and release notes. I can ask to withdraw it at any time and my number stays counted.